Root doesn't give the other woman in the room even a passing glance. There are more serious things at stake right now. Any other time, d she might have assumed that this was another number, someone deemed irrelevant that John has been tasked with saving, even in the midst of all they're dealing with.

She knows that's not the case this time.

The Machine has been quiet for five hours and twenty five minutes.

"We don't have time for this," she says, "Where's Harold? Did he make it?"